Word: burdened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything possible is being done to enable the student of first-rate ability, character and promise to obtain an education, there are some men who doing so much work that they are deriving very little gain from college, while others have been forced to assume such a heavy loan burden that they will be seriously handicapped for several years after graduation...
...made to say that I do not see my way clear toward making the necessary fused quartz disk (meaning the 200-in. disk), etc. I am sorry that you did not consult me before making a statement which is not in accordance with actual fact. It imposes a burden upon me which I did not seek, of correcting inquiries. I have all along held that from the work which we have done in fused quartz in spraying, it is undoubtedly possible to make the size of disk required, the limitation being, of course, time and expense, as those who know...
Members of New York's Tammany Hall may or may not be a burden to the city; they seem a positive jinx to the Italian Line. With pinchbeck little James John Walker aboard, the brand-new 51,000-ton, 28-knot Rex broke down at Gibraltar, reached Manhattan three days late. The slightly smaller, equally fast and ornate Conte di Savoia left Naples on her maiden voyage fortnight ago with New York's Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney as passenger...
...first of these effects has, by its lesser concreteness, been concealed from public attention, the second has been painfully obvious. For the long term loans which made the physical improvements possible were made in terms of inflated values; the deflation of the past three years has made the burden on the budgets of less cautious communities a heavy one. The call for retrenchment is not only inevitable, it is just...
...These disturbances caused by a very small minority endanger the good name of the University and the reputation of the undergraduates. It is evident that such a group does not realize the seriousness of these incidents. The property damaged is a mere trifle compared to the burden placed upon the Boston Elevated because of their responsibility for the welfare of their passengers. Men who start these disturbances subject all passengers who may be on the train at the time to inconvenience as well as chance of serious injury. These passengers may sue the Boston Elevated for any harm that comes...